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Aron Ralston on cutting off his arm to save his life — Transcript

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  1. 0:00have to cut my arm off except i couldn't
  2. 0:02figure out how to do it
  3. 0:04by the final night that i was there i
  4. 0:06was pretty sure that i was gonna i was
  5. 0:07gonna die
  6. 0:09i was certain of that by the first the
  7. 0:12first time i even turned the camera on
  8. 0:1324 hours i was gonna die i couldn't cut
  9. 0:16my heart off i would either bleed to
  10. 0:18death before i could get the medical
  11. 0:19help and then i realized the knife isn't
  12. 0:21sharp enough to get through
  13. 0:22the skin and then it wasn't sharp enough
  14. 0:24to get through the bone then it was the
  15. 0:26epiphany of realizing that i could break
  16. 0:29the bones of my arm i didn't have to cut
  17. 0:31through them with a knife i could break
  18. 0:32them and from that point it was just
  19. 0:35this smile that i'm going to get to my
  20. 0:37family i'm going to get home and get out
  21. 0:39of the spot i'm going to get i'm going
  22. 0:41to go home
  23. 0:42it was
  24. 0:44[Music]
  25. 0:47just
  26. 0:48ecstatic
  27. 0:50[Music]

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